Dirty Rat asked:


Any students, attorneys, or others who are required to read large amounts of material have any advice to give on this subject? I’m looking to improve my speed reading but really don’t want to have to spend $100 or more on programs to improve it.

Any ideas?

Ronald

Dr Jay Polmar asked:


The written word is everywhere. In todays fast-paced, get-it-done-yesterday world, being able to speed read”and remember what you read”is nearly a matter of professional life or death. If your reading speed is more tortoise than hare, perhaps its time to look into a new way of reading.

Learning to speed read actually involves teaching your brain to read in a new way.

But wait! you say. It took years to learn how to read before. I just dont have that kind of time.

Never fear! With our Speed Read Complete Corporate edition, you will be able to double your reading speed in only an hour in the privacy of your own home or office! This time-tested method of teaching your brain to speed read has been taught in live seminars for decades all around the US and the ebooks have been translated into five languages.

Still unsure about signing up for an online speed reading course? Have you handed over hundreds of dollars before, only to read a few words a minute faster? With our Speed Read Complete course”including three ebooks as well as supplementary MP3 audio files which you can take anywhere”we guarantee you will be reading noticeably faster and comprehending more or every penny of your money back.

Start our Speed Read Complete Corporate course (a minimum of a sixth grade reading level is necessary) with the book Speed Reading in Only One Hour.  Move on to our Complete Speed Reading Program: Corporate Version. In our course you will learn not only how to speed read, but also how to learn to control subvocalization, vary your reading speed, batch process, and important techniques for positive thinking.

Not only will you learn to increase your reading speed, using our time-tested Speed Read Complete course, youll be able to increase your memory, recall, concentration, note taking, and more.

The Speed Read Complete was written based on a 3-day lecture course by Dr. Jay Polmar, an accomplished author and university and community college professor who has written more than 100 books. Dr. Polmar has helped hundreds of thousands all around the world read faster and get ahead. Let him help you improve your life!



Clinton

bradpee asked:


Hi all,

I am looking for good training program to improve my reading speed in English. I am a slow reader and thus slow in digesting information and slow in everything.

Thanks a lot!
Is there a way I can respond to the answers to ask further questions?

I don’t know how to do that…
Thanks for your answer!
I want to ask if EyeQ really works?
I’ve seen a lot of their ads from Internet… and also saw many other programs. I need more informations about how do they work and are these programs the same thing or are they similar things?
How do I choose the best program?

Sally

Francis Hesse asked:


In this present-day era in which information is available in great quantity and at a very rapid rate (thanks to the Internet), there is also a burning need to be able to take in information in the shortest possible time. There is as a result a great demand for people who have a superior trained speed reading eye as this is a quality that helps in increasing productivity and so, is highly valued.

 

If you are on the lookout for some means to develop the speed at which you read, there are a number of solutions that can help to train you  in developing a better speed reading eye. There are in fact, numerous choices when it concerns diversity of speed reading courses as well as software that will help you read faster, and so it becomes essential that you choose one that will work to develop your proficiency in the most effective manner.

 

Retention and comprehension are essential.

 

When you develop a proficient speed reading eye you will then be able to use your newly acquired skills in many diverse ways and thus enjoy a more fruitful life. According to experts, there are just a small number of techniques that need to be learned to develop a good and sharp speed reading eye which will help you to enjoy the benefits of rapid reading and also comprehending and retaining the material that you have read.

 

Improving your reading speed will be of little use to you if you fail to absorb what it is you are reading.Learning to read at breakneck speeds without comprehension is not very useful, you must be able to understand what you have read and retain the information as well.

 

Also, one can always train to have a razor-sharp speed reading eye if one simply practices regularly as this is perhaps the most important facet to gaining the necessary speed at reading. In fact, though you can also practice by using your hand, or use cards to improve your speed reading eye, there is nothing quite as effective as constant practice in developing the art of speed reading.

 

It also pays to get some speed reading techniques because present day technology is so advanced that you can make dramatic improvements in speed reading by making this technology work for you. By improving your speed reading eye, you will be able to read faster as well as read better and by constantly practicing to even achieve your ultimate goal which should be to read at about hundred words per minute.



Melvin

Jonathan V asked:


What reading speed should I set when I’m burning my ps2 DVD-R backup?

Esther

Charger 3 asked:


My reading score on the ACT and critical reading score on the SAT suffer because of my reading speed. What are some ways I can improve my reading speed? Also, on these standard tests, what are your methods of answering? Do you read the questions first or read the passages first or etc.?
I end up having to blind guess about 10 questions on the ACT every time.

Claude

Francis Hesse asked:


Accelerate Your Reading,

You may believe that speed reading is only for genius types. After all, you need to center on what you’re reading if you hope to grasp what the text is trying to tell you. However, this is a misconception. Anyone can speed read; it’s a skill that has to be acquired. Before you can begin to speed read, you should  take a speed reading test to determine your reading speed level. You can  find  free speed reading tests online. This will  help gauge how fast you can read at present and be the bench mark to see how far you’ve come. It is awe-inspiring when you view the results of both tests, before and after you’ve taken your speed reading course, to see that it is possible for you to become a speed reader; even if you thought it was impossible.

Speed Reading Education

You can learn how to speed read in a number of ways. Some prefer audio tapes that take you thought various tips and tricks of learning how to accelerate their reading. These audio tapes will generally come with booklets that include a speed reading test. Again, you should take it before and after you’ve completed the course so that you can see how well you’re progressing.

You may also want to buy books on the subject. Many books can teach you how to speed read by also including  tips and tricks. It may seem strange to buy a book on speed reading, even though you’re not speed reading it at first, but soon you’ll be cruising along page by page, reading a book in a fraction of the time it took before you started the course.

Speed Reading Instructor

One of the best ways to learn speed reading is to find a instructor who already speed reads and who is well versed in teaching others. This person is also  someone that can give you a speed reading test, as you know it will be graded by someone else and not yourself; as is the case if you were to take a test via an audio tape or book. You can find speed reading teachers at your local library or you can look them up on the internet as well, either through the yellow pages directory or on free listing sites such as Craig’s List.

Speed reading, again, is a skill you can learn. It doesn’t take a genius, you do not have to have an oversized brain, you just have to learn how to skim the words quickly so that you can comprehend what is written. It takes concentration, a quick mind and you should take many speed reading tests so that you can gauge your progress every step of the way.



Kelly

msq_y asked:


I read very slowly in order to understand and answer questions that are related to the text. Are there any books you may recommend or certain strategies I can follow to overcome this issue.( speed reading) specially in proficiency tests like IELTS/TOEFL.

Gina

Matt Oconnor asked:


Speed reading is the ability to not only read text far quicker than you would normally but to be able to absorb the information as well. It’s no good zooming down a page of text and then not being able to recall any of the information.

Speed reading is something that can be of great assistance to you in almost any working environment and particularly one where you have to take in a great deal of information daily – to the point where you feel your head might explode!

One of the most overlooked points about speed reading is that you must first know what you want to get out of the book you’re trying to read. Do you need to know all of the info in in-depth detail or do you just need to get a gist of what it’s about? In which case you can just skim over the outline of the book and that will suffice.

In other words, know what you want to achieve with your reading before you actually do it. This is a seemingly obvious thing to say but one which, nevertheless, is often overlooked and misunderstood. The key is to be able to skim extremely detailed documents but still pick up the required information – that is what speed reading enables you to do.

Think about how you read right now. As a child you merely went from letter to letter as you got older it was word to word. Now, you probably read in sections or groups of words at a time. You may find that you’ll read one block of words, go onto another and then skip back to the previous block of words because you failed to understand or just didn’t take in what you just read. This is a common problem with adults and their reading. Speed reading on the other hand aims to eliminate these issues and make reading a breeze whilst still absorbing the required info.

In short, a good speed reading course will allow you to read more words in each section, it should reduce the amount of time you spend reading each individual section and it should eliminate the number of times you return to each previously read section.

A great tip to reduce the amount of time you spend going back over words you’ve already read is to use a pointer, say a pencil or a pen, to guide your eye as you read the text. As you get better, increase the speed with which you move your pointer across the text, you’ll find this quickly improves the speed of your reading.



Derrick

Robert Kokoska asked:


If you’re interested in pursuing a speed reading program, you’re in good company. Because of the over abundance of information that we all have to deal with on a daily basis, speed reading is looking increasingly attractive to more and more people. In fact, if you can more than double your current reading speed without losing any comprehension, it could benefit you greatly in many ways. It’s no wonder that more and more students and professionals are looking for an effective speed reading program.

In order to take full advantage of a speed reading program, though, it helps to investigate the truth behind all of the claims. This is because some of the claims that speed reading courses make are absolutely incredible and border unbelievable, and might well be too good to be true. Consider the following: When we’re reading in order to learn something for comprehension, that is, most of us naturally read at speeds of around 200 – 400 words per minute (wpm), depending on our natural ability and the difficulty level of the text being read. Sometimes, of course, we naturally speed up as we read for longer periods or if we are re-reading certain text.

If someone is reading an article or book for pleasure, and it’s not totally important to read all of the words, we automatically slip into another type of reading – sometimes called ’skimming’ or ’scanning’. This is just what it sounds like – rather than reading every single word on the page, we skim the information, looking for what we want or what interests us and for certain bits of information. We allow our eyes to travel down the page, and stop on relevant information. This is known as ‘lazy’ reading, in a sense, but comprehension is still fairly good for most people – about 75%. The average speed for this type of reading is somewhat faster – it can range from anywhere between 400 to 700 wpm.

A speed reading program can teach most people to increase their reading speed significantly above and beyond their current speed of ’skimming’ text. The next thing that most people wonder about is how much speed can be increased – and this is where it can get really confusing! Some speed reading programs offer a moderate increase in speed – to about 1000 wpm. This seems reasonable and achievable by most; what these programs are doing is teaching you to skim more efficiently. They do this by using a pacer to keep your eyes moving across the page, or by teaching you to read using your peripheral vision which allows people to see a large chunck of text at a time and memorizing it all.

However, there are many other speed reading programs that exceed these claims quite dramatically – some even claim that they can teach you to read at the truly amazing speed of up to 10,000 wpm, or even more! Needless to say, experts are sceptical of these claims, though many proponents of speed reading swear that they are true.



Francis